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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/3] tcg/aarch64: Enable indirect jump
 path using LDR (literal)
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To: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>, alex.bennee@linaro.org
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On 06/30/2017 07:36 AM, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> This patch enables the indirect jump path using an LDR (literal)
> instruction. It will be interesting to test and see which performs
> better among the two paths.
> 
> CC: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

Applied all to tcg-next.

Bonus points for converting USE_DIRECT_JUMP to a run-time flag, perhaps 
controllable by a -d bit.  That would further enable easy benchmarking of the 
two paths.


r~